ESPN, 3:00 p.m. ET
Last year at Augusta National Golf Club, young Rory McIlroy (at left) crashed and burned in the final round of the Masters, bogeying away a four-stroke lead and finishing with an 8-over-par 80, including a soul-crushing triple bogey on the 10th hole. He has a lot to prove this week. So does Phil Mickelson, who has earned three Green Jackets to date – if he wins this week, he would tie Tiger Woods’ career total of Masters wins, at four. And Tiger himself? He hasn’t won a major tournament in four years, and hasn’t won the Masters since 2005 – but the past few weeks, he’s been playing very, very well. For all these reasons, and motivations, this tournament is one to watch from the start. ESPN provides first-day coverage from 3-7:30 p.m. ET. Weather permitting, Woods tees off at 10:35 a.m. ET, McIlroy at 1:42 p.m. ET, Mickelson at 1:53 p.m. ET. Before ESPN shows up to provide taped recaps and live coverage, go to Masters.com for live coverage.
CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
Tonight, this geek sitcom lands its ultimate guest star: Stephen Hawking. Expect this episode to be relatively amusing – in more ways than one.
Encore, 8:00 p.m. ET
James Cameron is re-releasing Titanic in 3-D this week, and has just returned from a solo visit to the ocean’s deepest trench. This, then, is a perfect time to revisit the 1989 movie that prefigured both of those undersea passions. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star in a story of ocean explorers and rescue divers drawn, for various reasons, to unknown and previously unexplored depths. Some of the special effects used in this film were unprecedented, but Cameron’s direction is most evident, and impressive, in terms of drawing out the very intense and romantic leading performances. Here as in Titanic, it’s the love story that keeps everything else afloat.
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
Dolores Hart was 19 in 1957, when she starred opposite Elvis Presley in Loving You. As we learn in this charming profile by Rebecca Camissa, it was Hart’s first screen kiss. His, too. Yet after appearing in a string of iconic Sixties youth movies, including Where the Boys Are and Come Fly with Me, Hart retreated to a community of Benedictine nuns in Connecticut – and never left. Now 73, Hart looks back on her short career in Hollywood, and her much longer one devoting herself to God.
PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET
Kevin Clash is the man behind Elmo – and the voice, as well as the arm inside him. This profile lets us know the puppeteer who brings the beloved Muppet to life, in such a magical way that even when Clash is included in the camera shot, all eyes – yours as well as those with whom he’s interacting – are on Elmo.